Meet the Waterman of Tahiti

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  • Опубликовано: 30 дек 2019
  • Surfer Matt Poole takes part in The Waterman: an all-round ocean based competition in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
    At Teahupo'o, one of the craziest waves in the surfing community, there is yet another competition that takes place: an all-round ocean based race, Waterman Tahiti.
    The Waterman Tahiti Tour is THE standard against which all other “waterman” competitions are measured. Stand up paddle (SUP), open water swimming, prone paddleboard, body surf and lifesaving highlight the versatility and endurance of the athletes. Each year, they train to be able to meet the different challenges and exceed their personal limits. The Waterman Tahiti Tour is a championship measured in points amassed over 5 stages.
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Комментарии • 100

  • @msdsplayground8360
    @msdsplayground8360 4 года назад +13

    Wow..what a challenge, humbleness, what skill.

  • @hope4surf
    @hope4surf 4 года назад +11

    Total respect for these guyz! HNY!

  • @jonathanrath3036
    @jonathanrath3036 4 года назад +10

    Matahi is a legend already.

  • @lareessa1
    @lareessa1 2 года назад +1

    Socorro, é muito legal ver isso, como o esporte transforma as pessoas em alguém melhor, sempre se aprende algo, seja a derrota , seja a vitória. E fisicamente é incrível, ele é uma máquina.

  • @KylieJonkman
    @KylieJonkman 4 года назад

    So impressed this is a mixed race!

  • @nathkling4604
    @nathkling4604 4 года назад +3

    All the videos are so cool

  • @russellcole3549
    @russellcole3549 2 года назад +10

    This is a nice video about a Red Bull sponsored paddle board racer. I liked it. My friends and family (two generations) are paddle board racers. But "The Waterman?" Okay, guys on paddle boards and surfboards can be water men (or water women). And they did some swimming in one of the events. But let's not forget traditional Polynesian canoes and kayaks and body surfers and windsurfers and kite boarders and free divers and scuba divers and sailors from round-the-world racers to beach catamaran junkies and lifeguards and marine biologist counting fish and pearl divers and the old woman I met in the Caribbean who dunked her eighty-year-old self in the ocean every day. She told me she felt timeless for a little while when wet and floating once again. A Waterman can be identified by his or her affinity for, and mastery, of a discipline or disciplines in and on the water. But it also is a connection to the ocean that transcends the individual sport involved and has nothing to do with competition. My father was the greatest waterman I have ever met. He swam from Catalina Island to the mainland and taught four sons to body surf, even in the winter when nobody else would go in the water in Southern California because it was "cold" and swam every day of his life until he died at 84. But he never swam a race, never competed, and never cared whether he was better than somebody else in the water. What was important was being in the water, not measuring yourself against someone else's personal or spiritual experience.

    • @foto21
      @foto21 2 года назад

      Great post. I spent a lot of my youth in the water, and then unfortunately got away from it too much. Plan to move south. I'd have to build up to the cold, but I'm more at home in the water than many. But you have to live the life, or it just flies away.

  • @ayatchafaqui
    @ayatchafaqui 3 года назад +3

    What a humble man , this was great to watch

  • @surfdetective
    @surfdetective 4 года назад +117

    Love what red bull does to promote the most radical lifestyle..........not so happy about the drink...

    • @LoganLuqman
      @LoganLuqman 4 года назад +6

      nail on the head

    • @Makta972
      @Makta972 4 года назад +9

      Crappy drinks. But hey, they have to do it for the MONEY

    • @dexter131
      @dexter131 4 года назад +19

      Watch the videos and don't buy the drink.. you don't have to support every branch of a company. Not everything has to be all or nothing, everyone is so polarized in today's society, they forget it's okay to be in the middle on some things.
      I agree with you 100% though - love the lifestyle, not the beverages.

    • @zacharybuerkle2244
      @zacharybuerkle2244 4 года назад +1

      @@dexter131 right? its a way for them to fund their platform. I respect that

    • @currenwiggin8982
      @currenwiggin8982 4 года назад +3

      I drank my first one today. Got me threw the slowest day of school.

  • @kylewattssurfing3266
    @kylewattssurfing3266 4 года назад +1

    Awesome yeeeeees coooool....

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz7 4 года назад +3

    Aito👏
    Puissants le bro🙏☄
    Damn de caillasse

  • @Roger-tv7sf
    @Roger-tv7sf 4 года назад +3

    Take me there next time

  • @tord6712
    @tord6712 4 года назад +3

    This is why dutch wanted to go to Tahiti

  • @prosimian
    @prosimian 4 года назад +12

    Waiting for the Dutch van der Linde comments

    • @rickyspanish5602
      @rickyspanish5602 4 года назад +1

      Sacrificial Lamb just need some moah moneh

  • @lS-qp6zq
    @lS-qp6zq 4 года назад

    💪🏼

  • @katereitzel
    @katereitzel 4 года назад +1

    Good job. :-)

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell1357 6 месяцев назад

    Beautiful video 🙏🏻

  • @mts1189
    @mts1189 4 года назад +1

    This man from where?

  • @987mooz7
    @987mooz7 4 года назад

    THANKS you 😉🤙
    Maruru Redbull 🤙

  • @NBFACADEMY
    @NBFACADEMY 4 года назад

    Motivational my word for this video.....

  • @sw-sq5gk
    @sw-sq5gk 2 года назад +1

    Dont know the man, but he sounds like a great person

  • @ethan_hunter
    @ethan_hunter 4 года назад +2

    I do this sport

  • @najibelmaghraoui3132
    @najibelmaghraoui3132 4 года назад

    More to Red Bull Surfing

  • @leemcmullan
    @leemcmullan 2 года назад

    SPARTA!!!

  • @hunyotiago1271
    @hunyotiago1271 4 года назад +1

    Last comment of 2019
    Happy new year fellow Red Bull fan

  • @lwf5205
    @lwf5205 2 года назад +2

    Polynesians dont have the luxury if time for themselves to reach that higher level compared to Mr.Poole who might have himself to focus on

  • @issacf4416
    @issacf4416 4 года назад +2

    Maybe Red Bull should’ve done this feature on the teachers and not the student. I’m not surprised though.

  • @stokes58
    @stokes58 4 года назад +7

    1:22 has got to be one of the deepest I've seen there.

    • @stokes58
      @stokes58 4 года назад

      @ham and cheese Pray tell, what doth thou see in the depths of fury friends soul?

    • @stokes58
      @stokes58 4 года назад

      @ham and cheese He certainly has, the little bastard.

  • @sergioramirezmunoz2914
    @sergioramirezmunoz2914 4 года назад +2

    Amazing

  • @kelseymariebell1357
    @kelseymariebell1357 6 месяцев назад

    Si beautiful - not above nature, part of 🙏🏻

  • @thenotoriousttg_clint
    @thenotoriousttg_clint 4 года назад

    Wow, not that much views for having 9 million subscribers?!

  • @intosavage9213
    @intosavage9213 4 года назад

    epilogue part 3

  • @luckybroi
    @luckybroi 4 года назад +4

    My last comment in 2019
    Happy new year all
    Let it be an awesome year for you

  • @vito7590
    @vito7590 4 года назад

    You broke the football

  • @reihanahaggie8111
    @reihanahaggie8111 4 года назад

    Pronunciation - Teahupo'o not Chowpoo... please!

  • @qini8331
    @qini8331 4 года назад +4

    Sounds like we got Watermen of other countries.

  • @notveryobviousguy4373
    @notveryobviousguy4373 2 года назад

    Dutch is smiling somewhere

  • @kevinagee4364
    @kevinagee4364 4 года назад +1

    did he win the whole thing?

  • @idumpyourassdaily
    @idumpyourassdaily 4 года назад +10

    I Already Have....

  • @BruhMoment-ko4nw
    @BruhMoment-ko4nw 4 года назад +5

    Red dead fans know how much this video means

  • @jameshamana
    @jameshamana 4 года назад

    Surfboards and paddleboards cant be recycled. Bet that got dumped in a landfill in beautiful Tahiti. Nice one

    • @darraghobrien1028
      @darraghobrien1028 4 года назад +1

      Bruh his board got broken. It happens. What do you expect him to do? Tf

  • @Skyewastaken2
    @Skyewastaken2 4 года назад +1

    .....Coulson?
    I have a feeling no one is gonna understand this reference

    • @IPM71
      @IPM71 4 года назад +1

      It's a magical place... And I live there ;)

    • @Skyewastaken2
      @Skyewastaken2 4 года назад +2

      OMG YES!!!

  • @manamana8638
    @manamana8638 2 года назад +1

    Blablabla🤪🤪🤪

  • @timdale4047
    @timdale4047 2 года назад +1

    This dude doesn't have a pension plan eh

  • @canbeanyone5265
    @canbeanyone5265 4 года назад

    Money .

  • @capronfunk4869
    @capronfunk4869 4 года назад +1

    Hi

  • @lmean-ll4rv8le5j
    @lmean-ll4rv8le5j 4 года назад +1

    ..

  • @nigelpar
    @nigelpar 3 года назад

    Please boycott Red Bull until they hand over the murderer to face Thai justice. Thanks...

  • @nachoorciani9264
    @nachoorciani9264 4 года назад

    Like?

  • @ryudragonpunch9025
    @ryudragonpunch9025 2 года назад +2

    The waterman of Tahiti just happened to be white huh?

  • @talhatekcan4666
    @talhatekcan4666 4 года назад

    Fourth comment

  • @Makta972
    @Makta972 4 года назад +1

    Humm so Tahitian are White ? 😕

    • @JohnSmith-oo4qx
      @JohnSmith-oo4qx 4 года назад

      The good ones are

    • @elenastewart3963
      @elenastewart3963 4 года назад

      Some look like real Polynesian polynesian but some looks white cause they’re interracial kids, most of the time it’s because their grand grand farther/mother were from Europe and part of this big wave of sailers coming in Polynesia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Those kids have like mix European and Tahitian (even from other island like Poumutu) blood, some will actually have a thick Tahitian accent when you hear them talking in French. It’s all a big fam there tho there’s no distinctions, hope it stays the same.

    • @uriels4097
      @uriels4097 4 года назад

      he is not tahitian, he is a popa'a

    • @Mollygaga42
      @Mollygaga42 4 года назад

      Are you jealous !

    • @user-dn6yh8jr1o
      @user-dn6yh8jr1o Год назад

      @@JohnSmith-oo4qx aint no way ur a bigot its the 21st century but i guess u can tell urself that to make urself feel better

  • @remyespugna5989
    @remyespugna5989 4 года назад +1

    Quel foutage de gueule, c'est comme Coca sponsor des Jeux Olympiques...

  • @Dubstep011011
    @Dubstep011011 2 года назад

    Not really about Tahitian watermen

  • @laurainebuchanan6452
    @laurainebuchanan6452 4 года назад +1

    Get some resin n cloth and fix it ya gay lord

    • @MikeRoberts1964
      @MikeRoberts1964 4 года назад

      Probably, but you can't fix it and have it ready the same day or even a day later.

  • @powskier
    @powskier 4 года назад +1

    Lost total respect for the Aussie with his high tech gym crap. Go Polynesians!

  • @Jay-fq8uz
    @Jay-fq8uz 2 года назад

    lol the way he explained how Tahiti is in the middle was pointless.

  • @mts1189
    @mts1189 4 года назад +1

    Who's play pes mobile 2020 here. .....

  • @dominiopublico1881
    @dominiopublico1881 2 года назад

    Boring!